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Patented May 24,1881.

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Combined Collar and Tie.

Patented May 24, 1881.

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FELIUIE O. MARSTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED COLLAR AND TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,873, dated May 24, 1881.

Application filed October 11, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FELICIE O. MARSTON, of the city of New-York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Neck-Wear, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in'which- Figure 1 is a-perspective view of my combined collar and tie, showing a collar with the part corresponding to the band A prolonged at both ends. At one end the prolongation takes the shape indicated by that partof Fig. 1 which is lettered B, the prolongation being in the direction of the band. At the other end the prolongation does not take the direction of the band, but is an ofi'set, D, at right angles to the band at the button-hole c. This ott'sctD has a button-hole, d, at its farther end, and also opposite said button-hole d there is a second ofi'set, E. The offset 1) is as wide as the band of an ordinary collar, or as wide as the cross-piccein a necktie. As to length-i. c., from 0 toward dthe ott'set D is as long as the cross-piece in a necktie is wide and somewhat longer, to allow for creasing. The proportions are represented in Fig. 1. The second offset, E, ma y assume theshape represented in Fig. 1, to match the shape of B; or it may be of'any shape or design to suit the fancy, as E and B are the ends of the tie which are exposed after being properly adjusted. The collar may be a stand-upor a turn-down collar, and the combination of collar and tie, as already described, and as represented in Fig. 1, may be stamped frompaper at one blow of a die, or may be cut in one entire piece from linen or other material.

Fig. 2 represents the combination after it has been partly adjusted to the neck, the end 0 of the collar in Fig. 1 having been adjusted first by means of the button-hole c to the button c on the shirt-band, and then the end B having been adjusted to the same button by means of the button-hole a. The offsets D and E thus remain unadjusted.

Fig. 3 represents the same combination, with the oifsets D and E adjusted by simply turning the offset D down and fastening it to the (No model.)

aforesaid button 0 by means of the buttonhole d. The collar and tie are thus fully and firmly adjusted by the use of one additional button-hole. v

Figs. 4, 5, and 6 represent the same combination in respectively corresponding phases to those shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, only the offset D has twice the length indicated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the increase D being placed between the two button-holes'c and d. By this increase in length'the button 0 is concealed from view when the combination is finally adj nsted, as, after it has assumed the position indicated in Fig. 5, the button-hole d is doubled under the part D, and then adjusted to the button 0. Thus the button 0 is covered by the section I), which has the appearance of being the cross-piece in an ordinary tie, as illustrated in Fig. 6. It may be found more convenient when the combination is made, as in Figs 4, 5, and 6, to pass the button 0 first through the button-hole d, and then in succession through a c, and the button-hole in the shirt-band, thus reversing the order of buttoning.

ln inventing the above combination I have had two objects in view: first, to make a combination of collar and tie which may be manufactured at a cost little in advance of the price of either of the articles separately, and, second, to make a combination of collar and tie which will prevent the necessity of using pins or other fastenings.

I do not claim any combination in which the parts are separately made and then united, nor any combination in which the bands are merely prolonged at both ends in the shape and length of the part lettered E, or longer.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The offset D at right angles to the band at the button-hole at one end, and having a button-hole, d, of its own, and a second offset, E.

FELIOIE O. MARSTON.

Witnesses:

ALBERT J ULIEN PHILIP, J AS. BROOKS DILL. 

